Miners Strike Sparks Fatal Attack at Keystone Coal Mine
Details from Huntington West Virginia report deadly assault on nonunion workers and mine officials at Keystone amid a large scale coal field strike. Gunfire wounds multiple, one man mortally, as crews prepare to descend a shaft amid threats to occupy company houses and bring in Hungarian labour.
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Tluntington
W. Va
Virginias
Thurmond
New Pulver
New River
New
Kanawha River
W. P. Read
Keystone
Will Not Handle Trains Carrying Officers or Non-Union Mine Workmen
At Freeland and Hazleton the Delaware Susquehanna and Schuylkill railroad workers refuse to handle trains carrying special officers deputies or non unionists. Lehigh Valley crews decline to haul coal or soft coal on displacement trains, while officers and deputies trains will still run.
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Hazleton
Freeland
Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley
Mine threats and arson fear in Pennsylvania coal towns
Recruited nonunion workers and rumored washery reopenings fuel tension in Cranberry colliery and No 40 Lehigh Valley mine. Residents report nightly stone throwing at homes and new terror methods including graves and placards reading Death to scab, aiming at workers who refuse to strike.
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Cranberry
A. Pardee & Co
Lehigh Valley
Wikeeberre
Forty Fort
Miss Tertha Burgett Sets College Girls Baseball Record
At Elmire College field day meet on June 6 Tertha Burgett age 02 broke the national college girls baseball record by throwing 181 feet surpassing the prior 163 feet.
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Himura
Annue
Elmire College
Color Line in the Church Sparks Denver Withdrawal
Denver colored church representatives adopt resolutions to stay away from the International Sunday School convention to be held in Denver. They will notify colored delegates nationwide not to attend, citing a restriction that confines them to a section of the church. The executive committee is charged with being influenced by white southern delegates, a move described as unjust discrimination.
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Denver
Jone
Amnesty Bill Passes Cuban Senate Unanimously
Havana reports the senate passed a general amnesty bill for all Americans jailed or awaiting trial in Cuba, with President Palma stating he will sign once presented. An interview with Estes G. Rathbone reveals desire for a new trial in Cuba or a congressional inquiry if unavailable.
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Cuba
Senate
Palma
Estes G. Rathbone
Derailed Excursion Train Kills One and Injures Dozens
An excursion train of 13 cars carrying over 500 people derailed near Jack River on the Detroit and Mackinac Railway. One man died instantly. several others are fatally injured or severely hurt. August Grosinski was the only fatality in the wreck, with his son spared. The accident occurred when the tender jumped the track causing the front cars to plunge into a ditch.
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Tanna
Panama
House
Richard
Alabama
Arlington
Alpena
Midh
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Mackaw
Tah
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Jack River
How
Aneuet Throsineki
Jota Metarthy
Ernst Legateki
Jacob Mondorff
German Aid Society
Alpenn
Black Silver
August Grosinski
Grosinekt
Glenwood
Karl Garman
I. M. Garman
Thornell
Oklahoma floods raise streams beyond danger line
Western Oklahoma reports inches of rain swelled streams again threatening towns. Kansas river levels remain high as authorities monitor flood risks. The Cornell track team chose W. G. Warren of Chicago as captain for next season. Chauncey Depew jokes about his marriage yielding 25 per day. The pope met Governor Taft to discuss church matters in the Philippines.
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Cornell
W. G. Warren
Chicago
Kansas
Chauncey Depew
Pope
Taft
Philippines
Revered G H Hepworth Dies After Illness
Rev G H Hepworth longtime editor and Sunday sermon contributor to the New York Herald died after heart failure in New York. He was born February 4 in Towton of French maternal descent and had a noted editorial career. His wife was with him at the end.
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Weller
New York
Geo. N Hepworth
New York Herald
Twenty-third Street
Hepworth
Dr. Hepworth
Towton
Whitecaps Attack Couple in Indiana Farm Incident
A dozen masked men invaded the Demings home six miles north of Bloomington, Indiana, beating and whipping Henry and Jane Deming in their nightclothes. The assailants claimed cruelty to their child justified the violence and warned they would be forced to leave the county. Jane identified two attackers. the couple remains hospital bound with severe injuries.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Jane
Tlenry
Deming
Ving
Tloomington
Monroe County
Nomerel
Mra
Tobacco killed him at last in Saginaw exile
Daniel Smith aged 111 years and 4 months died in his Saginaw home after chewing tobacco day and night. he claimed service in Mexican and Indian wars and drew a pension from Uncle Sam. He recounted naval battles and family losses aboard the Shannon. Local notices also report perjury complaints against Detroit regent Colonel Sutton and associates. a panhandle accident near Jewell Station killed three men. and wider reports on weather damage in Lafayette and industrial moves in Grand Rapids and Memphis politics.
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Mich
Daniel Smith
Orville Saginaw County
Smith
Haver
Michigan
Sam
Neleon
Collingwood
Shannon
Chesapeake
Tog Island
Belle Isle
Pontiae
Tecumseh
Prisoner Shot During Escape Attempt at Fort Sheridan
Chicago report says Dad Cain, a prisoner at Fort Sheridan, was shot and mortally wounded by guard Lawrence Dunn of the Twentieth Infantry after Cain tried to flee. Cain's companion complied when ordered to return to the guard house.
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Chicago
Dad" Cain
Fort Sheridan
Lawrence Dunn
Twentieth Infantry
Dunn
Cain
Baseball Aggregations of Scores From Numerous Leagues
The report lists Saturday results across leagues with teams such as Vittabure and New York, St. Louis and Philadelphia, Chicago and Brooklyn, and Cleveland and Baltimore, plus Sunday games and several minor league pairings in Columbus St Paul Milwaukee and Kansas City Minneapolis, with scores for each pairing.
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New York
Vittabure
Philadelphina
St. Leonie
Philadelphia
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Brooklyn
American
Cleveland
Baltimore
Detroit
Boston
St. Laws
Dayton
St. Louie
St. Loui
Association
Columbia
Lodianapoolis
Columbus
St Paul
Kansas City
Toledo
Louieville
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Omaha
Des Sloines
Des Moines
Pecoria
MillLwaukee
Peoria
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Coal Strike In Illinois Ninth District Reaches Arbitration
A 400 man strike at the Chicago and Carterville Coal company shaft began in Carbondale and could halt Seventh district output. Dispute over pay for runners and loaders led to a Peoria convention referral to district arbitration. Arbitrators named, but verdict unsatisfactory. strike continued with no violence. The Operators' association vows to press UMW to accept the agreement or close the field.
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Carbondale
Chicago and Carterville
Peoria
Fred W. Lukins
Virden
A. A. Moorhead
Divernon
Edward Cahill
H. R. Simers
C. A. Thurton
Operators’ Association
United Mine Workers
Thirteen in Party Die in Denver High School Hayrick Accident
A wagon overturn near Morrison Colo after a hayrick party wagon wheel ran off a bridge. One Denver high school student Edith Withers died among thirteen riding. four seriously injured Magele Tumphrey Geo Smith Ltone Wheelock Marvin Kit. others bruised.
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Denver
Colo
Denver High School
Morrison
Turkey Creek Caton
Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Farrell Anti-Trust Law
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the Farrell anti-trust law in a case involving FB J Smiley secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers association. Smiley was charged with violating the anti-trust act.
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Topeka
Kan
State Supreme Court
FB. J. Smiley
Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association
Smiley
Science for Farmers Started as an Experimental School
New York June reports the plan to purchase 415 acres near Poughkeepsie to establish a pioneering practical agriculture school. Led by Professor George T Powell, the project draws support from AT Warren Cutting and others, seeking endowment and funding to operate a permanent farming college in New York State.
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New York
Torghkeepele
Citieens
Atrom & Thewitt
Patten Cutting
Chemselves
George T. Powell
Tewitt
Bhathown
Twe
Trostew
Theotore J. van Norden
Abram & Dewitt
William J. Dodoo
Ro Pulton Cutting
van Norden
Vee Tomlay
Powell
Poughkeepsie
Hewitt
Torn by wild animals in cage incidents at fair
Three people suffered terrible wounds as handlers and trainers were attacked by a bear leopard and lions. A trainer named McPhee was fatally injured, while others faced severe injuries and emergency removal. Separate trials in Glenwood and Alliance, Nebraska, resulted in prison terms for family violence and murder.
King Alfonso OKs 338 Million Peseta Loan
King Alfonso signs a decree authorizing a loan of 338 million pesetas. The Philippine civil government bill moves to the house a week from next Wednesday. British columns in South Africa ordered to stand fast until Boer surrenders finish. John Wymick, a colored miner, lynched after rape charge in Bondtown, West Virginia.
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Alfonso
South Africa
John Wymick
Bondtown
W. Va
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